Al Carter Quotations

We ran ourselves out of a couple of innings. It was a combination of things. There were a few missed signs.

I wouldn't have it any other way. They play in a small gym. I don't want to go to a boring place. I want that atmosphere.

But we got a lot of good shots underneath the basket.

I felt like we played good defense out there. We just have to take this and make us better. I thought this would be a good test for us and it was.

He was a little rusty, but he got the job done and made some plays.

He was doing a good job. We never really hit it real good all day.

I talked to the guys about maximizing their opportunities. We missed seven or eight easy baskets in the first half, and I thought we needed to do much better in the second half.

I think when we execute the way we did (Friday), we can beat anyone. It doesn't matter who. You've got to execute to win games.

I was trying to decide whether or not to walk them so we could get a force. I felt like we could pitch to the bottom of the order. Luckily, we were able to do it. He did a good job working out of some jams.

We don't have a choice. If we play them really good early, we've got a good shot. If we lose, we have nothing to be unhappy about, as long as the kids play hard.

We just didn't come up with a hit when we had runners in scoring position. We didn't hit the ball all that well today. Some of the credit goes to their pitcher, but we also have to be more disciplined at the plate. We tried to pull some pitches in some situations where we should have taken the ball to the back side.

Union County is a physical team. They put a lot of pressure on our guards. They're a scary team. They pushed us around a little bit last time, so we need to get off to a good start. That's going to be key.

Everybody was there. I was so glad to see them all. I wasn't sure how we'd do against them at full strength. They played man-to-man most of the game and tried to test our conditioning.

Seems to be the way we play lately. Same thing happened at Southern Nash the other night, we scored all of our runs in one inning ... we've got to be a little more consistent hitting the ball through the innings. Not just hit and wait for one big inning. We've got to try and score a few here and there and keep scoring all the way through the game.

Providence is a fundamentally sound team. Coach Jim Martin was here to scout us. He probably didn't see anything different than what he's seen of us before. And we know what they do. It's just going to come down to execution.

This is going to be as frustrating as all the other losses we've suffered in the state (tournament) before. This loss. Providence two years ago. They're going to stay with me forever. But I promise you we'll be back. I'm proud of the effort our kids gave.

This early in the year we're going to hold our pitchers down to 60 or 65 pitches. You get behind the good hitters and they'll make you pay. That's what happened a couple of times in the late innings.

They shot like that in (the holiday tournament). I hope they keep shooting like that from the free-throw line if we play them again.

It was big. The hit and run on the play before with Andrew ... I'm just as proud of that. It put us in a position to score.

Danny had a good fourth quarter. He finished some fast-break points on the other end. He was out in front and got some deflections.

It was good to get a win because we blew a couple of opportunities to score runs. Early in the game, we threw the ball around a little bit on a few plays. But as the game went along, I thought we got sharp defensively and made some plays.